Who knows if this little bit of database wizardry would actually cause the traffic camera's picture-parsing computer to drop a table? Even if it doesn't it's covered up his actual license plate. [See Also] More »
I am currently reading The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, by one of our great science writers, Deborah Blum. She will, I hope, be a guest on Point of Inquiry at some point.
Blum weaves a masterful tale of how modern forensic medicine emerged during the era of Prohibition as a doctor-toxicologist team hunt down murderers who use arsenic, mercury, and cyanide, and try to protect the public health from threats like tetrahedral lead, wood alcohol, and carbon monoxide. Move over, CSI Miami–here’s CSI 1920s New York. Just amazing stuff; no wonder Blum is at around # 240 0n Amazon right now….
The other day we learned a Google StreetView car buzzed (or was buzzed by?) a well-fed seagull. Today, it would seem one of his countrymen decided to repay the favor. With poop. [Google StreetView - Thanks, Eric] More »
What is the relationship, if any, between Blu-ray DVDs and the anamorphic format? Are all Blu-ray discs natively anamorphic, or does that even make sense?
I've seen a few Blu-rays labeled anamorphic, but that could just be hype, like saying "this new car is equipped with an engine".
I need a contact working on wide angle led drivers
I worked with HF osc it works fine at half of the power compare to DC
Will the embedded c programing differ in the environment in which we develop the program ????? or it is common to all ?? some use ccs, some use mickro c for a pic.... which is best????????????? apart from pic which compiler is used for other Microcontrollers????
can a programmer adapt to all
In this recently released commercial from Sprint, altruistic "Matt" grants his friend "Steve" (ha!) 4G speeds on his 3G network iPhone by way of the Overdrive mobile hotspot. Then he eats an apple—so clever! More »
Joseph Dispenza on the sacredness and beauty of all life.
Building a water basin to hold 960 gallons of water
8 x4 x 4, want to build it out of aluminium sheeting
first question how thick can must the sheet be, and how what size tube do i need to use on the outside to reinforce it.
second i want to tile over this, can i use silicone to
I sometimes make fun of NASA for being a bit stodgy, but in truth a lot of the folks there are pretty savvy when it comes to new tech and social media. The Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were on Facebook pretty quickly, and a flood of other space probes followed suit. Twitter is well-populated by NASA people, including astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who has been tweeting tirelessly from orbit recently, posting one amazing picture after another of cities, landscapes, and even the Moon.
One thing NASA is careful about is archiving material. They are well aware of the importance of the work they’re doing, and public outreach is a critical aspect of it. That’s why I’m happy to see a new effort on the part of the space agency to archive all their social media outlets.
It’s just started, so it’s a bit sparse, but I can see this being very useful to future historians. It may seem silly to have an online record of all the official tweets from NASA people, but in fact there is a wealth of information there. And it’s not just Twitter; it’s also Flickr for pictures, and YouTube for videos. I can see this expanding to Facebook, too, and other social networks. There’s a brief intro to the archive on the NASA images blog as well.
NASA does a pretty decent job of being transparent to its stakeholders — that’s you, folks — far better than most other government agencies, despite being online in far larger proportion than them as well. And I know that I’ll be able to use this archive for blogging; it’ll make linking to NASA efforts a whole lot easier. Not only that, but I found a couple of new Twitter streams form NASA I’m interested in, too! So take a look at the archive and dig around. I just bet you’ll find something cool there.
Memory is a fickle thing. As far as my brain is concerned, I didn't exist before age three. Remembering four or five is easier, but there are holes. Thankfully, all it takes are some voyeuristic navigation tools to fill them. More »
This week’s kiss was sent by Sara Cody who writes:
This is my New Years 2010 kiss with my boyfriend Jeff at Times Square in New York City. This is actually a still from a video we took on our camera of the ball drop and our subsequent kiss after!
Thanks for this beautiful submission Sara! (Click on the image to make it larger)
Submit your original photograph or artwork to the Science of Kissing Gallery for consideration by emailing me at srkirshenbaum@yahoo.com.
plz tel me the proper suction line design for centrifugal pump having suction head of 10 meter, pumping hot water, size 3Χ4Χ13.
It's the Republicans who are into Selfishness
From Eric Dondero:
Very late in the campaign of 2008, in at least two speeches, Barack Obama took a direct jab at individualist philospher Ayn Rand. He seemed completely aware of Rand's philosophy. In one election even speech delivered at Tampa, Florida, Obama criticized the "virtue of selfishness," the title of one of Rand's most successful books.
Here's the quote from Oct. 31, 2008:
"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic. You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."
And here's the quote in a slightly different form, from a speech delivered in Ohio, Nov. 2, 2008 as reported by Jake Tapper of ABC News, Nov. 3:
"The change we need won’t come from government alone," Obama said to a crowd of an estimated 80,000. "It will come from each of us doing our part in our own lives, in our own communities. It will come from each of us looking after ourselves and our families but also looking after each other. You know I – it’s been awhile now – we’ve made a virtue out of selfishness, there’s no virtue in that. We made a virtue of irresponsibility and we need to usher in a new spirit of service and sacrifice and responsibly."
Community over Liberty
Now, he's at it again, bringing up the subject of individualism last night in a health care vote eve pep rally to Democrat Congressman.
Transcript from the Washington Post:
Something inspired you to get involved, and something inspired you to be a Democrat instead of running as a Republican. Because somewhere deep in your heart you said to yourself, I believe in an America in which we don’t just look out for ourselves, that we don’t just tell people you’re on your own, that we are proud of our individualism, we are proud of our liberty, but we also have a sense of neighborliness and a sense of community -- (applause) -- and we are willing to look out for one another and help people who are vulnerable and help people who are down on their luck and give them a pathway to success and give them a ladder into the middle class. That’s why you decided to run. (Applause.)
YouTube video, June 2009, Ayn Rand vs. Barack Obama
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: This site will not be updated today with further articles. Please consider this article to serve as an open thread to discuss the crucial Health Care vote. We will return to regularly scheduled programming early tomorrow morning.
The use of flywheels to store energy has recently hit the auto racetrack. But other than for short bursts of electric power for passing, do you think such a system is practical for everyday passenger vehicles?
The preceding article is a "sneak peek" from Mechanical Power Transmission, a newsletter
A chain of events led to the devastating chemical accident at the Union Carbide chemical facility in Bhopal, India, on Dec. 3, 1984. Some of it was management's fault such as dismantling refrigeration systems and scrubbers, and some blame was on workers who ignored safety procedures or did not prote
An article on Wall Street website The Street.com notes that Toyota is not the only car company currently revealing vehicle defects and issuing recalls. That story lists Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, and Nissan among others. And it reports that six major carmakers, including Ford, have received complain
I was wondering about the advantages and disadvantages of an UNC Vs UNF bolts and their typical application. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
The Tea Party movement is not completely cuckoo. In fact, its focus on the Constitution should be welcomed by all Americans.
When tea partiers inquire closely into the Constitution’s original intent, they will find what they expect to find: it was created, first, to protect individual liberty from overzealous government.
Yet they may be surprised when they learn that Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson and Madison – as bitterly contentious in politics as present-day politicians (if not more so) – all agreed on the one bedrock principle upon which any good government depended: VIRTUE – or, literally, “Public Spirit.”
As Thomas Paine (Common Sense, The Rights of Man, etc.) insisted: “Public good is not a term opposed to the good of individuals. On the contrary, it is the good of every individual collected. It is the good of all, because it is the good of every one.” Hence Paine advocated progressive taxation, aid to the unemployed, and free public education.
Healthcare-for-all, anyone?
plz explain me the how vector and sclar mode operations work in VVVF drive
